Nick wrote:
This way of looking at emotions identifies them as Situation/Response
relations. Just as experienced features of the environment can lead to
responses, [E1 - R1], so these feature response patterns can themselves
be patterns that constitute new experienced features that, in turn,
Re today's discussion about proofs of the Pythagorean theorem - here's a
link to a page with ~80 proofs:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/index.shtml
Proof #4 is the one that Frank I were so impressed with; #1 is the one
that Nick (along with anyone who graduated St Johns) failed to
Bogomoly's site doesn't mention it, but proof #69 can be thought of as
an infinite double tiling of the plane.
Furthermore, an infinite number of new proofs can be generated by
sliding the square an increment in any direction and adding up the
areas.
So the number of proofs is not just 78.
